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The medical profession will eventually catch up…but in the meantime, we need to ask our partners to get tested for herpes and other STD’s as soon as a physical relationship looks likely. View or download this list of reliable blood tests for herpes, from the American Society for Social Heath (ASHA) by clicking here.Also, if you find out that your partner already has the virus for genital herpes, then you don’t have to worry about giving them an STD that they ALREADY have! If you want to be tested anonymously for Herpes or other STDs, check out services like Get STDtested.com*, and others listed on our page for Herpes Diagnosis.

__________________________________________________ Note: Not all genital herpes statistics are consistent from study to study.

Most say 25% of American women have the virus, and 20% of American males. The studies with slightly lower numbers refer to people ¹ (Source: ² (Source: ³ (Source: ⁴ (Source: ⁵ (Source: ⁶ (Source:

You can specifically request a herpes test if the practitioner does not include it in standard checkups.

You can order a confidential STD test from STDCheck.

Please also keep in mind that these statistics account for genital herpes caused by the HSV-2 strain. Unfortunately, when clinicians give “standard” STD check-ups, they don’t include tests for HSV-1 or HSV-2, unless it is specifically requested.

This only exacerbates herpes’ prevalence and the ignorance around it. Many couples have a healthy sex life and still never transmit it to the uninfected partner.

Fortunately, herpes is highly manageable and people who get it can still have healthy love and sex lives, as the data also shows.

These numbers focus mainly on United States genital herpes statistics. Herpes is more common than many might think, and a lot of people are unaware they are infected and may not even have symptoms to tip them off.

Many people who have herpes have NEVER spread it to a partner. But if you use some or all of these practices, your risk of transmitting the virus to your partner(s) might be much much lower.

Make sure that both you and your partner(s) have *actually* been tested for herpes.